Hi !

I am using Kubuntu 10.04 and knetworkmanager with a static ip. But the thing is that every time I login I have to manually choose from eth0 to my own connection. I know that I should create a system-wide connection but it is greyed-out and I can't select this.

Thanks

System Connections are currently not supported unfortunately.

I have the same problem on my Debian Squeeze.

Is there any solution to avoid this problem ? Should I uninstall knetworkmanager to get network properly configured on startup ?

Thank you.

By default Network Manager should enable the "auto eth0" profile. It is a Network Manager bug (not a KNetworkManager bug) that it isn't enabled by default.

If your system is a static desktop, then a solution to fixing this would be disabling Network Manager, and making sure NTrack is installed (so that KDE can still detect your manually managed network connection)

Guilo
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I wrote this tutorial to use static ip with knetworkmanager automatically.

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=94745


Static IP KNetworkManager - System Connection “Auto eth0" with nm-connection-editor


I also had trouble with the images hosted.
So I put this tutorial in PDF.


System Connection: established before the user log into the system. Available to all users.
User Connection: established after the user log into the system.

In this tutorial will be used:

- OpenSuse 11.4-x86_64

- KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"

- KNetworkManager: v0.9

- NetworkManager: 0.8.2-15.20.1

- NetworkManager-gnome: 0.8.2-8.1 --> nm-connection-editor

Will be shown two methods (1-System Connection and 2-User Connection) to create a connection with static IP and that works automatically with Knetworkmanager.